Free Web NovelChapter 205: Chapter 116: Quiet, Don’t Move
"Run!!"
"..."
Wei’en also took in the surrounding scene. ’I need to hurry!’
"Hm?"
Just then, a terrifying aura surged from behind him, making the pores all over his body feel like they were bursting open.
[You have been locked on by Matteo Haines’s killing intent. Assessment: Quick!! Reward: Survival Points +20.]
’Twenty survival points?!’
"Nico, Ruke."
Without a second thought, Wei’en grabbed Tina and blinked far away.
At the same time, he hastily yelled to Zero, "Grab the body and run!"
The Mechanical Puppet executed his command without hesitation, grabbing Reinhart’s corpse and running in his direction.
After blinking away, Wei’en didn’t dare to linger. Through the Origin, he continuously sent a request to the Secret Master to use the Blink (Death God) Spell.
’This is bad!’
’The Matteo I saw yesterday is actually stronger than Bolsen?’
As far as he knew, Bolsen’s strength was at least on the same level as Yegor’s—the Minister level.
’So Matteo... is Director Level?’
’Fuck, escaping is what matters now.’
He cast the Blink Spell six times in a row, nearly depleting his Spiritual Power.
Forced to stop, Wei’en pulled out a few vials of Enlightenment Potion and poured them into his mouth. He stood at the junction between the Central City and the Ruer District, looking in Bolsen’s direction.
During this time, he had already activated the alarm on his person to notify Lisi to come rescue him.
’But it seems... the distance is too great.’
Meanwhile, Bolsen had long lost his calm and composed demeanor. Staring at the continuously mutating wounds on his body, he looked as if he was questioning all his life choices.
At the same time, he was furiously cursing the Abyssal Creature in his mind.
’Doslav, did you sleep through that?’
’Do you have any idea how close I was to dying just now?’
’I’ve always known you’re lazy, have a foul temper, and you’re an idiot who only tells the truth, but you don’t have to deliberately screw me over, do you?’
Doslav, unable to tolerate it any longer, poked his head out from Bolsen’s shoulder. The moment his skull appeared, he retorted furiously, "You’re the idiot! Do you know who that was just now? That was a Taboo!" freewebnøvel.com
"A Taboo, you understand? That was Lun... You idiot, you almost got us both killed!"
"A Taboo?"
Bolsen was stunned. He knew Doslav couldn’t lie, so did that mean a Taboo had suppressed Doslav just now?
"You two, shut up. Do you think this is the headquarters of our Abyssal Sect?"
Matteo, who had just arrived, watched Wei’en from a distance, and... Tina.
’No wonder it felt strange last time in the Yidrisu District. I didn’t dare come out and kill those Investigators. So it was a Taboo.’
"Mr. Matteo, my apologies."
"Let’s go."
"Go?" Bolsen glanced at Wei’en. "What about him..."
"We’ll talk when we get back."
Matteo gave Wei’en one last, deep look, then turned and vanished in the direction of the slums, taking the still-hesitant Bolsen with him.
’Just as that lord predicted, this operation wasn’t going to be so smooth...’
The surrounding residents, whether hiding in their houses or having already fled to a safe distance, couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief at this scene. One after another, they murmured in lingering fear, "Praise the Dawn."
"Praise the Storm."
Wei’en also breathed a sigh of relief. ’Good thing those two didn’t follow, or I’d be in big trouble.’ ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
’But shouldn’t these ordinary people who survived a disaster be thanking me, an Investigator from the Secret Investigation Department?’
’Not a single Holy Professional from the Dawn and Storm Church showed up just now.’
’The one who fought a life-and-death battle against two powerful Extraordinaries from the Abyssal Sect was me—Wei’en Loft, okay?’
"...This feels really damn irritating."
Wei’en put away his sniper rifle and looked at the ever-calm Tina beside him, asking in a gentle voice, "Was that you just now? Did you stop that Abyssal Creature?"
His spiritual perception had been focused on Bolsen and the others, so he had overheard the skull-headed creature’s words.
’The only taboo object capable of suppressing it so completely would probably be the Demon Clown.’
"Tina, An Jing, don’t move."
"I knew it. Considering Bolsen’s status and power, there was no way he was that weak," Wei’en said with a smile. "Thank you, Tina."
"Tina, likes, Wei’en."
The white-haired girl leaned closer to his hand. Her eyes were vacant, but her demeanor was very docile.
"Mm, I like Tina too."
Wei’en held her hand, a warmth spreading through his heart.
Although Tina wasn’t good at expressing herself and rarely showed any emotional fluctuation, she did many things for him silently in the background.
If she hadn’t suppressed that Abyssal Creature this time, the battle’s outcome probably wouldn’t have been so thrilling yet ultimately safe...
"Father, the corpse."
Just then, Zero strode over and placed Reinhart’s body, which it had been carrying, on the ground.
"Yes, you did well."
With that, Wei’en summoned the Mechanical Gate and had Zero enter it.
’The gains from this battle were significant. Not only did I test the power of the sniper rifle, but I also got to test Zero’s strength.’
’To be precise, I tested Zero’s defensive capabilities.’
’The Metal Armor and Solid Heart Rune on its body are definitely not just for show. Its attack power just barely reaches the Captain level.’
’But its defense is strong enough to withstand Bolsen’s punches head-on... Its potential is huge.’
’Yes, even though the armor on Zero’s fists was deformed, that’s still extremely impressive.’
Before long, the battle in the Ruer District had attracted people from the Dawn Church’s Holy Professionals, the Ruer District City Guard, and the Secret Investigation Department.
But what Wei’en found strange, and also suspected had a hidden meaning, was that people from the Noble Committee had also arrived.
"Investigator, please explain the situation here."
A middle-aged man dressed as a nobleman, his expression stern, wore a neatly trimmed handlebar mustache. He spoke as if he were interrogating a criminal.
